An explanation: For years, I have wanted to teach Sarah Schulman’s People in Trouble in my Introduction to LGBTQ Studies […]
The Queer Truth: Sarah Schulman’s People in Trouble
For years, when I would tell stories of my time in 1980s San Francisco to friends or students, some of […]
An Excellent Adventure through Real Queer America
Newsflash: Red-state America is crawling with queer people. Those polite kids handing over your order at the Interstate exit drive-thru […]
Change over Time: A Colorado Love Story
In 1992, 53% of Colorado voters answered yes to this question on the ballot: “Shall there be an amendment to […]
Deconstructing the Stonewall Myth (Brick by Brick)
If you’ve been on social media at all during the month of June, you’ve probably seen Marsha P. Johnson’s name […]
From “Sip-in” to the Hairpin Drop Heard Round the World, Protests Can Work
Do protests work? Certainly they can make the participants feel that rather than passively accepting injustice they are doing something […]
Love and Rage
On November 2, 1992, members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) carried a dead body through the […]
Report from Pride: LGBT History Is (Not Yet) American History
Last June I participated in the annual Pride March in New York City, the biggest celebration of LGBT pride in the […]
More Than Blood
We awoke to news of the carnage in Orlando. I had slept in — the first long, good night’s sleep […]
(Ar)Rest Rooms
The students in my senior thesis course at Macaulay Honors College, part of the City University of New York, were scheduled […]
